Shelly Ventsch holds Duxter, a mature male mallard that she has been nursing back to health at her home, Thursday in New Town, N.D. Ventsch found Duxter last week coated with crude after apparently mistaking an oil waste pit for a pond. North Dakota is mulling a ban of oil waste pits amid a spate of toxic drilling discharges and an increasing number of migrating birds that have died by mistaking the polluted ponds for fresh water.
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